Image: StJamestheLessCeiling
Description: Chancel Ceiling of Saint James-the-Less Episcopal Church, 3200 West Clearfield Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Building/structure dates: 1846 initial construction Significance: Built between 1846 and 1848, St. James the Less is the first pure example of a Medieval Parish Church in the United States. It is also the first church be inspired by, and constructed under the supervision of the English Ecclesiological (late Cambridge Camden) Soceity, a highly influential group dedicated to reviving Medieval ritual and church design. An intimate and exquisitely beautiful church, St. James the Less is a superb reproduction of St. Michael's Longstanton in Cambridgeshire, built ca. 1230. ...
Title: StJamestheLessCeiling
Credit: Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey, http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa1100/pa1153/color/570215cv.jpg Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: HABS PA,51-PHILA,318-pa104
Author: Jack Boucher
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